Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Genres

DocumentaryTV Movie

OverView

Tells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through their pictures, irreversibly altered the face of fashion and pop.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

120 mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

10 August 2002

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Neil Pearson

Neil Pearson

Narrator (voice)

Twiggy

Twiggy

Self

Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler

Self

Mary Quant

Mary Quant

Self

David Hemmings

David Hemmings

Self

Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon

Self

Veruschka von Lehndorff

Veruschka von Lehndorff

Self

Andrew Loog Oldham

Andrew Loog Oldham

Self

Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp

Self

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Self (archive footage)

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Self (archive footage)

Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton

Self (archive footage)

David Puttnam

David Puttnam

Self

Similar Movies

7.1

My Generation

October 2017 •English

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

0.0

Carnaby Street Undressed

September 2011 •English

Carnaby Street Undressed is a story of fashion, music and eye opening insights into London's Carnaby Street in its 1960s heyday, told by the owners of the fashion shops that defined the iconic Street, and the popular musicians who were part of the “the scene”. This includes The Who lead sing Roger Daltrey, Donovan, Frank Allen from the Searchers, Gary Leeds from The Walker Brothers, and Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits. The film is the story of a generation that rebelled against the grey conformity of the 1950s with a cultural revolution emanating from Carnaby Street from where it spread across the globe changing fashion and music forever.

0.0

Dolly Story

April 1968 •English

Swinging London - a phenomenon which emphasized the young, the new and the modern. Fashion, music, art, media, life style and attitude. An era of optimism, and hedonism. A cultural revolution.

7.4

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'

November 2013 •English

An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented and influential guitarist of the twentieth century: his humble beginnings in Seattle, his time in New York, his rise to fame in swinging London… Live fast, love hard, die young.

0.0

Look at Life: IN gear

January 1967 •English

Join the cool kids on the Kings Road and Carnaby Street as youth fashion brings a welcome splash of colour to Britain. “Don't take it too seriously, or you'll be missing the point!”

7.3

Blow-Up

December 1966 •English

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

6.7

Darling

August 1965 •English

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

7.0

Deep End

March 1971 •English

London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

4.7

The Haunted House of Horror

July 1969 •English

Teenagers in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before they're all finished off.

4.0

Up Jumped a Swagman

December 1965 •English

A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.

5.2

Deadly Sweet

November 1967 •Italian

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?

5.8

Bitter Harvest

March 1963 •English

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

0.0

Cilla at the Savoy

July 1966 •English

In April 1966, Cilla opened in a 3-week cabaret season at London’s Savoy Hotel. On her final Sunday, she starred in her own television special produced by her manager Brian Epstein’s film company, Subafilms. It was the first colour television show of its kind to be made by an independent producer in Britain. The show was broadcast in the UK in black & white but aired in colour in The Netherlands and the USA. ‘Cilla at the Savoy’ was one of the most watched television specials of the 1960s.

6.2

Journey Around My Room

February 2008 •French

The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.

4.2

Eine Hand wäscht die Andere

September 2012 •German

Chlodwig Pullmann is a tax inspector and is involved in a thousand little deals and tricks - with the knowledge of Mayor Karsten Leimer, who has a lot more dirt on him. Pullmann's wife Jenny, on the other hand, fights against corruption in a citizens' initiative and is of course not allowed to know anything about her husband's deviations. When Pullmann gets a new superior who keeps a close eye on him, things get tight - and in order not to jeopardize his marriage, he decides to go straight. The only question is whether he will succeed.

6.1

Rugrats: Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks & A Beanstalk

May 2006 •English

Aunt Moo, a kindly old cow, and her Children (The Rugrats) are given a bag of magical beans by a mysterious stranger. This stranger (Susie) turns out to be a magic fairy, and the beans they threw out the window grow into a gigantic beanstalk.

6.0

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

January 1985 •English

Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box

0.0

Rothenbaumchaussee

January 1991 •English

Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseatic city to initiate the establishment of a new, liberal German radio station - in the Funkhaus on Rothenbaumchaussee. But Hacker also has private ties to Hamburg. He was born here and lived here until he had to leave his hometown on a Jewish Kindertransport.

0.0

So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight

January 1994 •German

In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.

4.5

Scorcher

October 2002 •English

The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.